Post by Uatu the Watcher on Feb 12, 2007 18:33:58 GMT -5
Age of Apocalypse
Legion (David Haller), an extremely powerful psionic mutant and son of Professor Charles Xavier and Israeli diplomat Gabrielle Haller, travels back in time with the intention of killing Magneto, Xavier's former best friend and current arch-nemesis. When David is on the verge of ending Magneto's life, Xavier places himself between the two, and Legion kills Xavier instead. Due to a "Grandfather Paradox", Legion then ceases to exist. Xavier has now died before Legion was even fathered.
Because of Xavier's sacrifice, Magneto comes to believe in his late friend's dream of peaceful co-existence between humans and mutants. Apocalypse, a nearly immortal mutant who has survived for centuries, was monitoring the fight. In this reality, he chooses this moment as the perfect time to begin his "survival of the fittest" genetic war. In the regular timeline, this doesn't happen until ten years later.
In this timeline, Magneto establishes the X-Men, but not until after Apocalypse establishes himself as a major power. Apocalypse comes to rule all of North America; New York City is renamed Apocalypse Island and the Statue of Liberty is replaced by a gigantic statue of his visage.
Apocalypse initiates a worldwide genocidal campaign of "cullings" in which millions of humans die. The few that survive live on parts of Europe and Africa which are not devastated by nuclear weapons, a fleet of Sentinels as their only defense.
Meanwhile, the disturbance of the timeline leads to a crystallization wave of the M'Kraan Crystal that is heading toward Earth...
After the Age of Apocalypse story arc, Bishop travels back in time to prevent the timeline from ever occurring. This occurs simultaneously with a nuclear exchange between the Human High Council and Apocalypse. Most characters were seemingly killed by the nukes, but the fate of the remaining survivors remained unclear. It is presumed that they were erased from existence.
Some characters escape the Age of Apocalypse into the Earth 616 timeline. These include Nate Grey (the Age of Apocalypse version of Cable), Holocaust (one of Apocalypse's horsemen), Dark Beast, and Sugar Man. Nate Grey allies himself with the X-Men a few times, but later "dies" by disseminating into every lifeform in the universe. Holocaust remains at large in the main universe until he joins the Exiles and is killed by another universe's evil version of Hyperion. Sugar Man later died at the hands of Callisto. Dark Beast is the only one of these four still alive. Dark Beast and Sugar Man are sent 20 years into Earth 616's past. Dark Beast has a hand in the creation of the Morlocks. This also explains why Mister Sinister initiated the Mutant Massacre: he recognized his stolen handiwork, and ordered it exterminated, as a debasement of his art. Furthermore, Sugar Man gave genetic technology secrets to the Genegineer of Genosha, allowing this small nation to become powerful by enslaving mutants.
Blink escapes into the multiverse itself: she joins and leads the reality-hopping team of heroes known as the Exiles. Her counterpart on Earth 616 has been dead since the attacks of the Phalanx Covenant.
Sabretooth of this timeline also survives along the same means as Blink. He joins a team of reality-hopping super beings known as Weapon X. During one mission, he opts to stay behind on a world to raise a child. Eventually, he is brought back into action and joins the Exiles. They have since visited the post story-arc Age of Apocalypse, the survival of which comes as a surprise to Blink and Sabretooth.
Legion (David Haller), an extremely powerful psionic mutant and son of Professor Charles Xavier and Israeli diplomat Gabrielle Haller, travels back in time with the intention of killing Magneto, Xavier's former best friend and current arch-nemesis. When David is on the verge of ending Magneto's life, Xavier places himself between the two, and Legion kills Xavier instead. Due to a "Grandfather Paradox", Legion then ceases to exist. Xavier has now died before Legion was even fathered.
Because of Xavier's sacrifice, Magneto comes to believe in his late friend's dream of peaceful co-existence between humans and mutants. Apocalypse, a nearly immortal mutant who has survived for centuries, was monitoring the fight. In this reality, he chooses this moment as the perfect time to begin his "survival of the fittest" genetic war. In the regular timeline, this doesn't happen until ten years later.
In this timeline, Magneto establishes the X-Men, but not until after Apocalypse establishes himself as a major power. Apocalypse comes to rule all of North America; New York City is renamed Apocalypse Island and the Statue of Liberty is replaced by a gigantic statue of his visage.
Apocalypse initiates a worldwide genocidal campaign of "cullings" in which millions of humans die. The few that survive live on parts of Europe and Africa which are not devastated by nuclear weapons, a fleet of Sentinels as their only defense.
Meanwhile, the disturbance of the timeline leads to a crystallization wave of the M'Kraan Crystal that is heading toward Earth...
After the Age of Apocalypse story arc, Bishop travels back in time to prevent the timeline from ever occurring. This occurs simultaneously with a nuclear exchange between the Human High Council and Apocalypse. Most characters were seemingly killed by the nukes, but the fate of the remaining survivors remained unclear. It is presumed that they were erased from existence.
Some characters escape the Age of Apocalypse into the Earth 616 timeline. These include Nate Grey (the Age of Apocalypse version of Cable), Holocaust (one of Apocalypse's horsemen), Dark Beast, and Sugar Man. Nate Grey allies himself with the X-Men a few times, but later "dies" by disseminating into every lifeform in the universe. Holocaust remains at large in the main universe until he joins the Exiles and is killed by another universe's evil version of Hyperion. Sugar Man later died at the hands of Callisto. Dark Beast is the only one of these four still alive. Dark Beast and Sugar Man are sent 20 years into Earth 616's past. Dark Beast has a hand in the creation of the Morlocks. This also explains why Mister Sinister initiated the Mutant Massacre: he recognized his stolen handiwork, and ordered it exterminated, as a debasement of his art. Furthermore, Sugar Man gave genetic technology secrets to the Genegineer of Genosha, allowing this small nation to become powerful by enslaving mutants.
Blink escapes into the multiverse itself: she joins and leads the reality-hopping team of heroes known as the Exiles. Her counterpart on Earth 616 has been dead since the attacks of the Phalanx Covenant.
Sabretooth of this timeline also survives along the same means as Blink. He joins a team of reality-hopping super beings known as Weapon X. During one mission, he opts to stay behind on a world to raise a child. Eventually, he is brought back into action and joins the Exiles. They have since visited the post story-arc Age of Apocalypse, the survival of which comes as a surprise to Blink and Sabretooth.